Part 2 (1/2)

CHAPTER II

A FINE CHANCE

”That Alice Jallow is certainly the irl in Deepdale!” declared Mollie, with vehemence

”And Kittie isn't aret can go with them”

”She's a newco Betty she was now, for she hirling about and ”teetering” on her skates in a dizzying fashi+on ”When she gets to know those girls she won't have any more to do with them than--we do”

”And there was a ti remarks about Amy, that they seeood to last,” asserted Mollie ”Oh--the cat!”

Mollie shot out the word as though she would like to exercise some of the proclivities of a feline herself, and scratch

”What possessed her to stop where she did, and talk loud enough for Amy to hear?” asked Grace

”It's hard to tell,” decided Betty with a sigh ”Shall we go after her?”

and she nodded in the direction taken by A crowds

”No; best let her cry it out, poor child,” said Mollie, softly ”She was crying when she skated away”

”Well, if we can find the boys we'll just mildly hint that those chocolates are about due,” observed Grace, and she and the others looked about for Will and his chuer which, at that moment, menaced poor Amy

Those of you who have read the previous books of this series need no special introduction to my heroines Others may care for just a brief one The initial volu and Tra for Fun and Health,” told how Betty, Mollie, Grace and A tour Incidentally they solved the ratitude of a Mr Henry Blackford, a young business man

In the second book, ”The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake; Or, The Stirring Cruise of the Motor Boat _Geirls were a uessed fro become the proud possessor of a fine craft

When Mollie Billette got her touring car the girls saw no end of good times ahead of them, and their hopes were fully realized The third volume, named ”The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car; Or, The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley,” involved the girls fros They could not discover, until the very end, why a certain girl fell out of a tree And as for the strange manifestations in the mysterious old mansion--but there, it would not be fair to betray the secret in such a fashi+on

The beautiful Fall weather gave the girls a chance totours in the car, and they enjoyed every e of winter

A cold snap had frozen over the Argono River, on the pleasant banks of which was located Deepdale, the thriving tohere our friends lived

And they were out enjoying the sport when A

Iabout the personal lives of the four chu that Betty was an only child, that Grace had a lovable brother Will, and Mollie a small brother and sister--Paul and Dodo--twins, ere alternately called the ”cutest” and the ”sters in existence Of Amy's mystery I have already hinted

When Will Ford saw the danger in which his sister's chu herself he fairly raced forward There was need to act proonal direction he fairly collided with the girl, and forced her out of her course, and away froerous hole that yawned there just before her

”Amy!” Will cried ”What is the matter?”

Amy looked up with a start, and Will saw that she had been crying

”I--I don't know,” she sta”